Sometimes you can have multiple sites installed in the same database, a common situation with sub-domains on cheap hosts who allow only one MySQL database per account. Some other times you have installed a forum, a torrent tracker or whatever on a subdirectory of your site and it has created tables in your site's database. Now it is possible to exclude these tables using the
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The settings on this page are defined per profile. Make sure you have selected the desired profile in the page. |
On the upper part of the page you can find two quick links. The first one, entitled Reset table filters will remove all database tables filters, usefull if you messed up and want to start over. The other one, entitled Filter non-Joomla! tables will exclude all tables not appearing to belong to your current Joomla! site from the backup set.
The main part of the page consists of a list of tables of your database. Clicking on a table name will toggle its exclusion status. Excluded tables appear in red bold type.